Why Your Business Needs an SEO Company
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 10 years or still use the yellow pages to find a restaurant, ... . For example a company that provides metal stamping or GPS tracking equipment will have an easier time optimizing phrases than a real estate agent or electronics product in a competitive vertical market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 23:33:13
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6 Harsh Environments to Run A Linux Micro-Server
Recently I blogged about Plat’Home’s “Will Linux Work? ... will be connected a GPS tracking unit and a satellite uplink with integrated real time monitoring / telemetry ... as backup and a “time machine” rsync backup server. Do the same in Northern Canada home. Another [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 23:50:04
Remote Dynamics Partners with Morrow Equipment to Manage Fleet of Cranes and Hoists
PLANO, TX — (Marketwire) — 01/07/09 — Remote Dynamics, Inc. (OTCBB: RMTD) ... , construction and equipment rental companies for real-time asset tracking, maintenance management ... , a leading provider of GPS vehicle tracking solutions, today announced Morrow Equipment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:09:14
From DrugLords to the CDC: How Mobile Technology is Reshaping the Social Media Landscape
In today’s technology-driven society, we’re using cell phones to do just about anything, ... land via real-time GPS tracking on your phone. DrugLord for iPhone Source: Mashable Other [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 14:00:45
Free GPS Tracking of a Person or Vehicle by InstaMapper
InstaMapper is a free service that allows you to track a person or vehicle online in real time using a GPS-enabled cell phone. The system is very... This is a content summary only. Visit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:11:29
The Ticker: FNC, BBC, CNBC...
> THR's Paul J. Gough writes about The Strategy Room, Foxnews.com's popular Web show (3 million streams and counting) ... of the goods being shipped, or follow online in real-time by GPS. A special edition ... America begins a year-long periodic segment tonight at 7pmET, tracking a shipping container as it travels [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 22:52:12
No Excuses: Tracking Your Fitness On OS X
It should be obvious that the blogging elves at The Apple Blog care about the fitness of our readers, especially at this dessert-laden time of year ... Hardware Support: Garmin GPS, Nike+iPod/Sportband, iPhone/iPod NOTE: Real world workout data ... have some built-in advantages, I chose four programs that work with GPS devices, heart rate monitors or [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:00:20
Nokia Mobile Millennium GPS traffic monitoring project seeking volunteers
Nokia is preparing to begin a large-scale traffic monitoring project called Mobile Millennium, for which it will invite up to 10,000 members of the public to provide anonymous GPS tracking data through their cellphones. The first stage of a plan to provide real-time traffic information throughout cities rather than [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 16:47:28
GPS for Skiiers is more than just an avalanche tracker
GPS for Skiiers is more than just an avalanche tracker skiiers-gps.jpg ... like running real-time competitions against people you don't know, tracking the location of individual ... decent skiing jackets these days come with GPS in them, for those 'just in case' situations. Why [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 11:25:28
Ownership in a Digital World & Blurring the Boundary Between Products and Services
A group of auto dealers in Oregon secretly attached GPS tracking units to the cars of customers with poor credit to better track them in the event of repossession. This questionable act has brought up a debate over real ownership in today’s world. Do you completely own what you purchase, or is just lent to you for the time being [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:49:55
Oregon Wants to Track Your Car
The governor of Oregon wants to replace the gasoline tax with a "mileage tax," proportional to the amount of miles you drive ... , either in real time or of travel history,” the report said. “Accordingly, no travel location points ... a great deal of expensive new infrastructure -- GPS units in all vehicles, and units in all gas [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 16:25:00
One word
I wonder why they didn’t use it. A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — ... in real time or of travel history,” the report said. “Accordingly, no travel location points are stored ... official in charge of the project, tried to assure the public that tracking people’s travels [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 17:30:00
Fifeen Startup Friday- Vote For Your Favorite
So, I was super excited when my blog post “Top 10 Tips To Get Your Startup Noticed” over on marketingstarups.com started to pick up steam ... . A lot. And now I feel like a jerk because I haven’t had time to get to them. I asked, they answered ... some of the following search terms to see it work – camcorder, TV, DVD player, binoculars, GPS, car [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 15:47:07
Oregon! what's going on with you?
What's all this about Oregon's governor advocating a mileage tax calculated and enforced by satellite? ... locations, either in real time or of travel history,” the report said. “Accordingly, no travel ... can be punished. In a sense, such tracking already happens in America, but is largely a matter of passive data [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 05:49:00
The Not-Rape Epidemic
Pushing me up hard against the wall of the freight elevator, he leaned into me, his breath warm on my neck ... at a the University catering company where I got my first real job. For some reason, he immediately became ... when I needed time off or how to make the house-special drink (never mind that high-schoolers should [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 00:18:00
Council storm-response briefing #2: Metro’s “bottleneck” explained
Now, our second report (more to come) on the Seattle City Council’s second day of briefings on December snowstorm response: This time, ... and understand their frustration. Nobody likes to wait by the curb for a long time, for a bus that may ... , one that can be pro-actively put into effect with enough time to warn customers. That observation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 22:01:52
Google Earth Sleuther Zooms In on Fossett's Crash Site
spotted Wednesday during an aerial search near Mammoth Lakes, California, where hikers found Fossett's identification cards and $1000 in cash. Debris from the plane was scattered across the mountainside. "That information is indicative of a high impact crash which appears to be consistent with a non-survivable accident," said Mark Rosenker, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 21:36:14
PRIVACY IS DEAD
PRIVACY IS DEADI just hung up the phone with my realtor; he found me a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico at a bargain price. I'm so fed up with things around here, I told him I'd make an offer.All that I'm looking for is little privacy. I am in no way a hermit, or anti social person, I just don't want everything I say and do, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 13:56:00
More Green Gift Wrapping
Hopefully the majority of your shopping is done. Now it’s time to wrap. Re-nest.com offers the following 9 ways to green your gift wrapping ... special, by including a tracking number allowing you to see where the bag has been and where it goes ... . With the advent of GPS, paper maps are becoming less necessary so I wouldn’t feel too bad turning [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 22:55:27
It’s not a privacy threat today…
Oregon is trying to devise a system to tax all those shifty, tax-evading environmentalists they have up there: ... of miles they drive instead of how much gas they use, even going so far as to install GPS monitoring ... in a recent pilot program. Any reader of this site will see the words “GPS monitoring device” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 07:25:53
Science And Technology Used To Track Simon Cowell’s Every Dull Movement
The only reason, and we do mean the only reason, we’d ever be seen following Simon Cowell all over town is if we’d gotten reliable word that there’s ... is a girl-Bugs Bunny. Not everybody is so stealthy - like the paparazzo who stuck a tracking device ... reception off it. Jackson’s ins and outs will remain his own, for the time being. Cowell’s car [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 15:00:25
200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis
With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in an attempt to free up more of your time. Peachtree.com - Peachtree brings their popular accounting ... you didn’t have time to update by giving you an iPhone interface and SMS updating, as well as via [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58
Do You Know Where Your Container Is?
ship-container Developers believe a new generation of tracking devices will overcome some limitations of RFID ... , and alert of damage. SaviNetworks, the world's largest provider of active RFID tags, is close to launching ... advantages over RFID-based solutions, said Murray Gibson, Hutchison Ports UK's general manager [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 20:40:02
5 iPhone Apps to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
As we welcome another year, many of our readers are making resolutions to improve themselves. We’ve rounded up five iPhone apps ( ... -tracking, you just might make exercise fun! iFitness screenshot Other best bets: Lose It! (free), an app for tracking calories; iWorkout Lite (free), a video-based workout app that includes a basic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:08:08
West Seattle buses: Metro service reminder; questions answered
First, that reminder: Long before Snowstorm ‘08, as we were reminded last week, Metro had been planning to run a “partial holiday schedule” for most of the time between Christmas ... she read the “editorial-esque aside” we included in this post - it’s about why bus-tracking didn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 13:04:48
Photo Ticket Cameras to Track Drivers Nationwide
Private companies in the US are hoping to use red light cameras and speed cameras as the basis for a nationwide surveillance ... , the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that police could not use a physical GPS tracking device ... tracking options to prospective state and local government clients. Redflex explained the company's [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 17:03:00
8 Killer Apps for Android
Just recently, the Linux-based Android phone has been successfully introduced to the public ... easily. Killer features: * Android's background GPS capability allows accurate always-on tracking ... . Now, it's time to see Android perform, though we'll have to wait before G1 goes on sale starting October 22 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 14:05:00
CATEGORY - IT/WEB TOOLS
Slightly 'off-enviro', but still pertinent to all involved, or interested in honing their online/IT skills with blogs, sites, etc.Evolving contentBasically as I see, use or get sent 'em, I'll share.AdvertisingSpotmixer - some useful free creation bits but distribution costsAnalysiswebsite-analyser.com - Animationmoviestorm.co [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:29:00
My Very Own Hack-a-thon
The last couple of weeks I have been working on quite a few different projects of mine.. ... . One particular use that would come in handy now would be to allow people to do real-time updates ... and calculates the rate for me. I will probably return to this again to get the real-time updates [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 10:43:03
More on the Oregon Mileage Tax
The LA Times has an article today on the proposed Oregon mileage tax, and tomorrow's radio program "Think Out Loud" ... requires no transmission of vehicle travel locations, either in real time or of travel history,” ... tracking, though at what frequency I'm still not sure.Also, let's dismiss with the notion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 20:21:00
Circumnavigation: The Boat - Part I
new sailboat in Exuma, Bahamas and sailed it to North Carolina - just a few days ahead of what was soon to be Hurricane Fay. Helping me crew were my long-time friend Fred Burke, and my daughter Trisha. We had just enough time the evening before to put fuel and provisions on the boat. Fortunately, the boat came [more...]
Date: 2008-08-24 23:20:05
Italian State Police Get Gadget-Filled Lamborghini Gallardo Police Car [Police Cars]
The Italian state police have just received a customized Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 capable of 203 MPH to catch your ass anywhere you go ... -time to central control rooms, while a forward-looking camera is capable of data-logging GPS information to the video information and transmitting the live feed to offices in real-time. That vestigial [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 17:30:00
GPS Is The Perfect Traveling Companion
Topics: gps, best car gps system, magellan gps, garmin gps, tomtom gps Just maybe, with the right GPS system, ... to compute position, velocity and time. Four GPS satellite signals are used to compute positions ... ? Does this scenario seem familiar to you? It is time to drive to a new destination and all too many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 07:56:32
Carzonrent wins prestigious CIO Bold 100 award for introducing innovative technology in the Car Rental Domain
/India PRwire/ - Carzonrent (India) Pvt. Ltd., India’s largest urban personal ground transportation company, ... are equipped with GPS/GPRS, navigation devices · 24x7 monitoring and tracking of vehicles through control ... System (IVRS) for real-time assignment of cars and forwarding car and chauffeur details to customers [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 06:05:21
It has finally happened
Yes it has. I had a vision of a social networking phone sometime slightly less than 2 years back. A phone that sync real time your address book with the contact list of your social networks ... resources (eg: camera, GPS) via Javascript, it is very close to my original vision. Plus, they did [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 00:34:22
West Texas Wingshooting with Astro
A couple of us are back from a few days of quail hunting in wild and rugged West Texas, where the Astro GPS Dog Tracking System got plenty of use. West Texas is wide-open country ... -- and most shots are taken while you're huffing and puffing. Suffice it to say that's not real [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 17:03:02
Sanity check: The top 10 products from Gartner ITxpo 2008
This article was co-authored by Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic’s Head Technology Editor ... provides GPS functionality. Although HP was on hand showcasing one of their Gobi-enabled laptops ... and others (see chart below). Laptops using the Gobi chips will be a real boon for business travelers [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 07:50:23
Thoughts for a Wednesday Morning
Mr Obama's silence is being interpreted by many as an implicit agreement with President George W. Bush's stance. Photo: REUTERSThe White House ( ... and real freedom.Our ancestors knew this.more - Granny Miller"Perfecting" the Imperfect Science fiction [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 10:47:00
December 2008 Virtual Earth Newsletter
In the News: Kansas Department of Transportation Improves Road Condition Web Site Using Virtual Earth Masternaut Three X Conquers the Great Wall of ... Powers New Store Locator With Virtual Earth Virtual Earth Presents at Inman News Real Estate Connect ... over any color-coded route provides the name of the road, the condition status and the last time [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:30:06
Somebody’s Watching You
How would you feel if you found out someone was tracking your every move? ... for BrickHouseSecurity.com which is managed by BrickHouse Electronics. One category of device they sell is GPS Tracking ... had discussed how the Chicago courts were having troubles in their plans to use GPS tracking devices [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:26:58
GPS-Based Social Network Ipoki Gives Place to What You Do (The Startup Review)
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials ... just with one click! Embed your map with your real-time location in your Blog or any other site. Geo-locate ... . STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Ipoki 20-word Description: Ipoki is a GPS-based social network [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 17:19:52
Consumer Groups Target Mobile Advertising; FTC Complaint Alleges Deceptive Practices
Consumer Groups Target Mobile Advertising; FTC Complaint Alleges Deceptive Practices By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 Jan 2009 06: ... targeting, location-based targeting, user tracking/mobile analytics, audience segmentation, and data mining ... argue that mobile advertising has already been partly held back by the very real danger of stirring [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:45:16
SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave
January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30
Gartner ITxpo 2008: The top 10 IT products
Gartner ITxpo 2008: The top 10 IT products Posted by Jason Hiner @ 1:45 am Categories: Gartner Symposium 2008 Tags: Information Technology, ... . It also provides GPS functionality. Although HP was on hand showcasing one of their Gobi-enabled ... and others (see chart below). Laptops using the Gobi chips will be a real boon for business [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 08:45:20
AT&T & Motorola to Launch the Rugged Tundra VA76r on January 13
Today, AT&T Mobility and Motorola, Inc. unveiled Motorola Tundra VA76r, a rugged 3G clamshell device with a tough exterior that can withstand harsh environments. Perfect for those who need a durable mobile phone such as teenagers, outdoor enthusiasts and contractors, Tundra combines uncompromised call quality, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 01:16:31
Global Warming: How GPS Tracking Will Save Lives When Disaster Strikes!
If you watch the History channel and watch the top 10 disasters that will befall the world, the number one prediction that is actual happening today is Global Warming. We begin this article with a brief explanation of Global Warming and it’s impact on life on earth and then move on to the worlds first and only command and [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 20:39:06
Blackline GPS Snitch Review
You don’t have to be obsessive or a control-freak to want GPS tracking for your car: ... when in the trunk or buried under shopping. For longer-term tracking, Blackline recommend hard-wiring the GPS ... to keep an eye on where they’re going and when. To those people, and more, Blackline offer the GPS Snitch [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 18:46:39
January 8th 2009
Presidential LunchDuring the meeting between President Bush, Obama and all the living former presidents, ... for every time Clinton said that close to a bush...During the meeting between President Bush, Obama ... Security USA,” which follows real Border Patrol agents dealing with their daily activities at the border [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:22:00
15+ FREE iPhone Apps to Navigate Your World
There are a lot of iPhone apps. Thousands of them. And a good percentage are location-aware. They function with the help of cellular tower spotting or GPS to give users real-world ... the system for something that shows no Google branding. Booyah. InstaMapper GPS Tracker InstaMapper [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 20:43:27
Five Features in a Runner’s Watch that you can Apply to your Training Today
The Lap Recall Feature Athletes who do repetition work as part of their training need some way of recording their times, ... for a single rep, loses your time once you reset the watch! The Lap Recall keeps a history of time ... is a good way to time your recovery as well as repetition time. For instance you could set [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 00:41:42
